Dr. Chantal Kalisa
Associate Professor of French; Undergraduate Advisor
1128 Oldfather Hall
402-472-3747
mkalisa2@unl.edu
Chantal Kalisa, Associate Professor (Ph.D. University of Iowa). is Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has written on the representation of violence in literature and cinema. She is author of Violence in Francophone African and Caribbean Women's Literature (University of Nebraska-Press, 2009). In addition to publishing articles on literary and artistic expressions of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, she is co-editor of Dix ans aprés: Réflexions sur le génocide rwandais [Ten Years Later: reflections on the Rwandan genocide], a volume of critical essays and creative writings on the genocide. Her current project is a book-length titled Artistic Expressions and Reconciliation in Post-Conflict Rwanda where she examines the use of arts such literature, film theatre, painting, sculpture, molding, engraving, dancing, music etc to promote social and political reconciliation.
